208 NLRB 540
Local Union No. 391, IBT
540
DECISIONS OF NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD
Local Union No. 391, International Brotherhood of
Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Warehousemen and Help-
ers of Americas and Chattanooga Division , Vulcan
Materials Company. Case 10-CC-872
January 21, 1974
DECISION AND ORDER
BY CHAIRMAN MILLER AND
MEMBERS
KENNEDY AND PENJLLO
On April 12, 1973, Administrative Law Judge Max
Rosenberg issued the attached Decision in this
proceeding. Thereafter, Respondent filed exceptions
and a supporting brief, and the General Counsel and
Charging Party each filed cross-exceptions and a
supporting brief.
Pursuant to the provisions of Section 3(b) of the
National Labor Relations Act, as amended, the
National Labor Relations Board has delegated its
authority in this proceeding to a three-member panel.
The Board has considered the record and the
attached Decision in light of the exceptions and
briefs
and has decided to affirm the rulings,
findings,2 and conclusions of the Administrative Law
Judge and to adopt his recommended Order as
modified herein.
ORDER
Pursuant to Section 10(c) of the National Labor
Relations Act, as amended, the National Labor
Relations Board adopts as its Order the recommend-
ed Order of the Administrative Law Judge. as
modified below, and hereby orders that Respondent,
Local Union No. 391, International Brotherhood of
Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Warehousemen and Helpers
of America, Greensboro, North Carolina, its officers,
agents, and representatives, shall take the action set
forth in the said recommended Order, as modified
below.
1.
In the first sentence of the Administrative Law
Judge's recommended Order, change "CW & H of
All to "Chauffeurs, Warehousemen and Helpers of
America."'
2.
Substitute the attached notice for that of the
Administrative Law Judge.
i As amended at the hearing
1 The Administrative Law Judge made certain inadvertent errors in his
Decision which are corrected as follows
1
In sec. III, par 4, delete the second sentence and substitute therefor
the following
"As chronicled above, Vulcan is a New Jersey corporation
with its principal offices located in Birmingham , where it engages in the
manufacture and marketing of chemicals secondary metals, and heavy
construction materials through a chemicals group , a metals group, and five
construction divisions within a construction materials group "
2
In sec ill, par 5 , delete the second and third sentences and
substitute therefor the following
"The corporate structure of Vulcan
consists of a board of directors and a chairman of the hoard, an executive
committee
appointed by the board and a chairman of the executive
committee, and two executive vice presidents, one for the chemicals and
metals groups and one for the construction materials group. In turn, each
division is headed by a divisional president who is responsible to the
appropriate executive committee and to the board of directors for the
efficient and economic operation of the division, for the general manage-
ment of the division, and for the control and profits of the division -
APPENDIX
NOTICE To MEMBERS
POSTED BY ORDER OF THE
NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD
An Agency of the United States Government
WE WILL NOT engage in, induce, or encourage
any individual employed by Chattanooga Divi-
sion, Vulcan Materials Company, to engage in a
strike or refusal in the course of such individual's
employment to use, manufacture, process, trans-
port, or otherwise handle or work on any goods,
articles, materials, or commodities, or to perform
any services, where an object thereof is to force or
require Chattanooga Division, Vulcan Materials
Company to cease doing business with persons
engaged in commerce, or in an industry affecting
commerce, or to force or require persons engaged
in commerce or an industry affecting commerce
to cease doing business with Chattanooga Divi-
sion, Vulcan Materials Company.
WE WILL NOT threaten, coerce, or restrain
Chattanooga Division, Vulcan Materials Compa-
ny, or any other person engaged in commerce or
in an industry affecting commerce, where an
object thereof, is to force or require Chattanooga
Division, Vulcan Materials Company, to cease
doing business with persons engaged in commerce
or in an industry affecting commerce, or to force
or require persons engaged in commerce or in an
industry
affecting
commerce to cease doing
business
with
Chattanooga
Division,
Vulcan
Materials Company.
LOCAL UNION No. 391,
INTERNATIONAL
BROTHERHOOD OF
TEAMS rERS, CHAUFFEURS,
WAREHOUSEMEN AND
HELPERS OF AMERICA
(Labor Organization)
Dated
By
(Representative)
(Title)
This is an official notice and must not be defaced
by anyone.
This notice must remain posted for 60 consecutive
days from the date of posting and must not be
altered, defaced, or covered by any other material.
208 NLRB No. 81
LOCAL UNION NO. 391, IBT
Any questions concerning this notice or compli-
ance with its provisions may be directed to the
Board's Office, Peachtree Building, Room 701, 730
Peachtree
Street,
NE, Atlanta,
Georgia 30308,
Telephone 404-526-5760.
DECISION
STATEMENT OF THE CASE
MAX ROSENBERG, Administrative Law Judge: With all
parties represented, this case was tried before me in
Chattanooga, Tennessee, and Atlanta, Georgia, on Decem-
ber 14, 1972, and January 16, 1973, on a complaint filed by
the General Counsel of the National Labor Relations
Board and an answer interposed thereto by Local Union
No. 391, International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauf-
feurs, Warehousemen and. Helpers of America, herein
called the Respondent.' The issue raised by the pleadings
relates to whether Respondent violated Section 8(b)(4)(i)
and (ii)(B) of the National Labor Relations Act, as
amended, by picketing at the premises of Chattanooga
Division, Vulcan Materials Company, herein called Chat-
tanooga. Briefs have been filed by the General Counsel,
Chattanooga, and the Respondent, which have been duly
considered.
Upon the entire record made in this proceeding,z I
hereby make the following:
FINDINGS OF FACT AND CONCLUSIONS
1. THE BUSINESS OF THE EMPLOYER
Chattanooga maintains an office and place of business in
Chattanooga,
Tennessee,
where it is engaged in the
processing and retailing of gravel, asphalt, and ready-mix
concrete. During the past calendar year, Chattanooga
processed, sold, and distributed its products valued in
excess of $50,000 directly to customers located outside the
State of Tennessee.
Mideast division of Vulcan Materials Company, herein
called Mideast, has its principal office and place of
business in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, where it is
engaged in the processing, sale, and distribution of crushed
stone. During the annual period material to this proceed-
ing, Mideast sold and shipped its products valued in excess
of $50,000 directly to customers located outside the State
of North Carolina.
Vulcan Materials Company, herein called Vulcan, a New
Jersey corporation with its principal office in Birmingham,
Alabama, is engaged in the manufacture of chemicals,
secondary
metals,
and heavy construction materials.
Vulcan is comprised of seven divisions: the Southeast
division, the Chattanooga division, the Midsouth division,
1 The complaint, which issued on November 20, 1972, is based on
charges filed and served on October 24, 1972, and amended charges which
were filed and served on November 14, 1972
2 The record herein, by agreement of all parties, is comprised of the
record made in a 10(1) proceeding before the Honorable Frank W Wilson,
United States District Court Judge for the Eastern District of Tennessee on
December 4 and 5, 1972, together with the exhibits introduced therein
(exclusive of Resp Exh 32) and the exhibits introduced herein
The General Counsel's motion to correct transcript of the record made
541
the Mideast division, the Midwest division, the metals
division, and the chemical division.
I find that Mideast and Chattanooga are employers
engaged in commerce within the meaning of Section 2(6)
and (7) of the Act.
II. THE LABOR ORGANIZATION INVOLVED
The Respondent
is a labor organization within the
meaning of Section 2(5) of the Act.
III. THE ALLEGED UNFAIR LABOR PRACTICES
The General Counsel contends that Respondent violated
Section 8(b)(4)(i) and (u)(B) when, in the course of an
economic strike called
against
Mideast,
Respondent
extended the work stoppage and picket line to the premises
of Chattanooga, a neutral employer, thereby inducing and
encouraging individuals employed by Chattanooga to
cease work, and forcing or requiring Chattanooga to cease
doing business with its customers and suppliers, or forcing
and requiring Chattanooga's customers and suppliers to
cease doing business with it. For its part, Respondent
claims that Chattanooga was not a separate "person" to
the
dispute
between
Mideast and Respondent, and
therefore its picketing at Chattanooga's work situs was
legally privileged.
Section 8(b)(4) of the Act makes it an unfair labor
practice for unions to (i) induce or encourage individuals
employed by any "person" to engage in a strike, or to (ii) to
threaten, coerce, or restrain any "person," where in either
case an object thereof is (B) to force or require any
"person" to cease doing business with any other person.
Section 2(1) of the Act provides that "the term `person'
includes one or more individuals, labor organizations,
partnerships, associations, corporations, legal representa-
tives, trustees, trustees in bankruptcy, or receivers."
The Board has held, with court approval, that separate
corporate divisions are separate "persons," and, as such,
are entitled to the protection of Section 8(b)(4)(B) from the
labor disputes of the other, if neither the division nor the
parent exercises actual or active, as opposed to merely
potential, control over the everyday operations or labor
relations of the other.3 Thus, whether Respondent's strike
against Chattanooga was clothed with legality depends
upon whether or not that business entity occupied the
status of a "person" within the statutory scheme.
The facts giving rise to the instant litigation are not in
essential dispute and I find them to be as follows. As
chronicled above, Vulcan is a New Jersey corporation with
its
principal offices located in Birmingham, where it
engages in the manufacture and marketing of chemicals,
secondary
metals,
and heavy construction materials
through a chemicals division, a metals division, and five
before Judge Wilson is hereby granted
I also hereby grant Respondent's motion to receive additional exhibits
which consist of Resp Exh 60 and purports to be a 1972 statement of
earnings, and Resp Exh 61, which is a Xerox copy of gasoline credit cards
bearing the name of Vulcan Materials Company which were used by an
employee of Mideast division of Vulcan
3 Los Angeles Newspaper Guild, Local 69 (San Francisco and Los Angeles
Herald-Examiner, Division of Hearst Corporation), 185 NLRB 303, and cases
cited in In 5, enfd 443 F 2d 1173 (C A 9, 1971)
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DECISIONS OF NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD
construction divisions. The chemicals division is headquar-
tered in Wichita, Kansas. The metals division is situated in
Sandusky, Ohio. The five construction divisions and their
locations are: Chattanooga division-Chattanooga, Ten-
nessee ; Mideast division-Winston-Salem, North Caroli-
na; Midwest division-Chicago, Illinois; Midsouth divi-
sion-Knoxville, Tennessee; and, Southeastern division-
-Birmingham, Alabama: Each of the construction divi-
sions produces and markets its products in the geographi-
cal areas which they serve and does not compete with the
other divisions. Mideast, which operates in the States of
North Carolina and Virginia, produces crushed stone.
Chattanooga, which services the Chattanooga area, prod-
uces crushed stone and ready-mixed concrete.
The chief executive officers of Vulcan are located in
Birmingham, Alabama. The corporate structure of Vulcan
consists of a chairman, a board of directors, an executive
committee appointed by the board, and executive vice
presidents who are in charge of the chemicals, metals, and
construction divisions. In turn, each division is headed by a
divisional
president
who is elected by the board of
directors,
and who is responsible to the appropnate
executive vice president for the efficient and economic
operation of the division, for sales and related activities, for
the general management of the division, and for the
control and profits of the division.
It is undisputed and I find that there is no interchange of
employees between the respective divisions of Vulcan, nor
is there any interchange of products. While there is some
transference
of
equipment between the construction
divisions,
such as water pumps and machinery, this
interchange is negligible and is handled on the same rental
basis as when equipment is loaned to or exchanged with
competitors.
Each division maintains its own payroll,
makes its own disbursements, does its own bookkeeping
and accounting, and has its own bank account. Moreover,
there is no line of advancement between the various
divisions, or between the divisions and Vulcan. Each
division
president
has the sole responsibility for the
production and marketing of the division. He alone selects
his staff, and he alone hires and discharges personnel.
There is no day-to-day communication in the normal sense
between the divisions, or between the divisions and
Vulcan. Each division president possesses a broad authori-
ty to formulate his individual labor relations' policies, to
negotiate collective-bargaining agreements, and to execute
these contracts. While the divisional president may utilize
the services of Vulcan's industrial relations staff in
Birmingham, such utilization is not obligatory but option-
al. Certain services are made available to the divisions by
Vulcan.
These include such things as pension plans,
insurance plans, and savings plans. It is undisputed and I
4 Unless otherwise indicated , all dates hereinafter fall in 1972
S Simmons testified without contradiction and I find that he had engaged
in negotiations with other labor organizations without assistance
6 Robert
Majors,
Vulcan's
manager of manpower planning and
development,
visited
Mideast's facilities on three occasions during the
negotiations and the subsequent strike On one occasion, he attended the
final
negotiation session at the invitation of Mideast as an unofficial
observer
On the two other occasions ,
Majors was invited
by Jerry
Simmons, Mideast 's manager of administration , to assist in preparing for
find, however, that these services may be availed of or
rejected by any or all divisions.
Turning to the events giving rise to-this proceeding, the
Respondent commenced an organizational campaign
among Mideast's employees in the spring of 19724 and,
following a Board-conducted election, was certified as the
collective-bargaining representative of a unit of employees
at the Central Services Shop of Mideast. The consent
agreement for this election was signed, on behalf of
Mideast, by its local labor counsel, Charles Vance. A
collective-bargaining session
was thereafter scheduled
between the parties for June 21. Prior to this meeting,
Louis Graham, president of Mideast, telephoned Carl
Whitten,
Vulcan's manager of industnal relations, and
requested that
Whitten participate as a member of
Mideast's negotiating team in the forthcoming negotia-
tions. According to Whitten's uncontroverted testimony,
Vulcan made his services available to the divisions because
"the division may want counsel, guidance or help in their
negotiations, and they know that there is a staff at
Birmingham, that is available to help them if they want it.
They are under no obligation to use it So, they may invite
me in to help them, recommend certain things, but they are
free to accept or reject my recommendations." Shortly
after their telephone conversation, Jerry Simmons, Mid-
east's manager of administration, who is responsible for
personnel, safety, and industrial relations, conducted a
wage and economic survey to determine how Mideast
compared with the industry.5 Armed with this information,
President Graham formulated Mideast's contract propos-
als. When the parties met on June 21, Mideast's negotiat-
ing team consisted of Whitten, Simmons, and an individual
named Bell. At the outset, Whitten informed Respondent's
representatives, as he did again at a meeting in July, that
.,we were decentralized in our management structure; that
each division had full responsibility for their own labor
relations, for the profits in the business, for the running of
the business, and I was there at the invite of the division,
and that my role would be simply to help the division
express their particular view, profits and control of the
business, and all of the activities there relating to the local
people."
Although
Whitten acted as
Mideast's chief
spokesman throughout the negotiations, this was done
under specific authority from Graham. The record estab-
lishes and I find that Graham made the final decision
respecting the content of Mideast's contract proposals and,
on occasion, rejected specific recommendations on certain
clauses suggested by Whitten.
After several fruitless discussions, the parties reached an
economic impasse on August 31 .6 On October 2, the
Respondent struck Mideast and commenced picketing the
Central Services Shop and storeroom, and the quarry
adjacent to the shop in Winston-Salem . On October 20,
the strike and to devise training programs for supervisors
Majors had also assisted the president of Chattanooga in 1970 in
negotiating a contract with Teamsters Local 515 following a lockout that
year Again, Majors was invited by Chattanooga President Ellman to attend
the sessions,
and
Majors followed Ellman's script in the negotiations.
Although Majors signed the resultant contract on behalf of Chattanooga,
this was due solely to the fact that Ellman was not available to perform this
chore
LOCAL UNION NO . 391, IBT
Respondent began picketing Chattanooga's ready-mix
plant with signs bearing the legend "Vulcan Materials
Plant on strike-Teamsters Local 391." On October 25,
Respondent extended its picketing to Chattanooga's
quarry and plant, utilizing identical picket signs. It is
undisputed and I find that, at all material times, Respon-
dent represented no employees employed by Chattanooga
and had no labor dispute with that entity. In fact,
Chattanooga's employees
were represented by other
unions, including a sister Local 515 of Respondent, and no
labor dispute existed between Chattanooga and these other
labor organizations. Moreover, at the time of the picketing
as well as prior thereto, there was no interchange of
products or employees between Mideast and Chattanooga,
and Chattanooga had not performed any work for
Mideast. Rounding out the narrative, the result of the
picketing at
Chattanooga had the effect of causing
Chattanooga's employees to cease doing any work, thereby
completely shutting down the operations at the Chattanoo-
ga installations.
As Judge Wilson observed in his decision arising out of
the 10(1) hearing held before him, the "crux" of the issue
presented in this proceeding "centers around the activities
of Carl T. Whitten and Robert Majors, members of the
Vulcan Home Office Industrial Relations staff, and around
the services they rendered to both the Mideast Division
and the Chattanooga Division." 7
As chronicled above, although Vulcan maintains an
industrial relations staff at its Birmingham office the
services of which are available to all of its divisions, its
members participate in collective-bargaining relations for
the divisions by invitation of the divisional president. Even
though Vulcan's personnel may be designated as the
chairmen of the divisional bargaining teams, the format for
the divisions' contractual proposals are drafted by the
divisional industrial relations' departments under the aegis
of the divisional presidents. These presidents possess the
authority to, and have in fact, rejected proposals formulat-
ed by Whitten and Majors when their assistance was
sought in negotiations. In short, although Mideast and
Chattanooga availed themselves of the services of Vulcan's
Whitten and Majors, I am convinced and find that they
served simply in an advisory capacity during bargaining
sessions,
with final authority regarding
management
proposals residing in the presidents of the Chattanooga
and Mideast divisions. I therefore find that Vulcan did not
exercise a centralized control of the labor relations of its
divisions.
The facts in the instant case parallel those considered by
7 1 am not persuaded by Respondent's argument that, because Vulcan
files a single income tax return, trades its stock on the New York Stock
Exchange under its corporate name, has settled antitrust suits brought by
the Federal Trade Commission against it, contracts for the purchase of real
estate with bonds which are handled in its offices, and issues a consolidated
annual report to stockholders, this establishes that Chattanooga was not a
"separate person" who was not "wholly unconcerned" with the labor
dispute which flaired up at Mideast Nor am I convinced that this argument
is supported by the facts that Vulcan projects its public image under the
corporate name of "Vulcan Materials Company" on billboards at the
Mideast and Chattanooga sites, that the trucks at Mideast and Chattanooga
bear only the name of "Vulcan Materials Company," that truckdrivers
receive the same safety instructions in the divisions and are awarded the
543
the Board in Los Angeles Newspaper Guild, Local 69, el al.
(San Francisco Examiner, Division of Hearst Corporation), 8
/ where it held that two divisions of the same corporate
enterprise were entitled to the same protection under
Section 8(b)(4) from each other's labor controversies as
that accorded to corporate subsidiaries, provided that the
corporation did not exercise actual, or active, control over
the divisions which operated independently of the corpora-
tion and each other as separate autonomous entities. In
that case, the Hearst Corporation, incorporated in Dela-
ware, engaged in a conglomerate of business activities
conducted through some 20 divisions, of which 7 were
newspapers. With respect to the two divisions involved, the
president of Hearst appointed their heads and delegated to
them the responsibility for the day-to-day operations,
including the formulation and implementation of labor
relations policies. Hearst retained the power to remove the
divisional officers in the event of unfavorable earnings.
Each division manager possessed the authority to deter-
mine the size and salaries of the staff which he hired,
discharged, or promoted. As in the instant proceeding,
there was no transfer of employees among the divisions
and, although Hearst made available to the divisions
certain insurance, pension, and salary continuation pro-
grams, each division could accept such programs or reject
them. And, as in the instant case, each of the Hearst
divisions' managers had final authority to market its
product.
Moreover, each division maintained its own
financial system, subject to uniform reporting requirements
for tax purposes. The division retained certain operating
profits as a cash balance and remitted the surplus to
Hearst. Although corporate approval was required for
expenditures in excess of $10,000, such approval had never
been withheld.9 Viewing these facts, the Board concluded
that two of Hearst's divisions which were not involved in a
labor dispute affecting a third division, which was being
struck,
constituted "persons"
within the
meaning of
Section 8(b)(4)(B) because thy were virtually separate and
autonomous enterprises in Hearst's corporate scheme of
things. The Board therefore found that the striking unions
violated Section 8(b)(4)(i) and (n)(B) by extending their
dispute to the divisions which were neutrals to the dispute.
I have heretofore found that Vulcan did not maintain
actual or active control of the labor relations policies of
either Chattanooga or Mideast. I therefore conclude that,
on the facts here presented, Chattanooga was an unoffend-
ing employer and a statutory "person" during the course of
Respondent's dispute with Mideast. Accordingly, I con-
clude that, by picketing Chattanooga on and after October
same safety pins which bear only the Vulcan legend, or, that personnel at
Mideast and Chattanooga obtain insurance and pension plans from
Vulcan's office As indicated heretofore, these benefits are available to the
divisions on an optional basis in addition, the name of Mideast also
appears on signs in Winston-Salem Moreover , employee paychecks also
bear the legend of Mideast
S 185 NLRB 303, enfd 443 F 2d 1 173 (CA 9, 1971) See also American
Federation of Television and Radio Artists
Washington-Baltimore
Local
(Baltimore News American Division, The Hearst Corporation), 185 NLRB
593, enfd (CAD C )
9 Mideast and Chattanooga are allowed to expend up to $50,000 without
Vulcan's prior approval
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DECISIONS OF NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD
20, Respondent violated Section 8(b)(4)(i) and (n)(B) of the
ORDER i 1
Act. i0
IV. THE EFFECT OF THE UNFAIR LABOR PRACTICES
UPON COMMERCE
The activities of the Respondent set forth in section III,
above, occurring in connection with the operations of
Chattanooga described in section 1, above, have a close
and intimate relationship to trade, traffic, and commerce
among the several States and tend to lead to labor disputes
burdening and obstructing commerce and the free flow
thereof.
V. THE REMEDY
Having found that Respondent has engaged in unfair
labor practices within the meaning of Section 8(b)(4)(i) and
(ii)(B) of the Act, I shall recommend that it cease and
desist therefrom and take certain affirmative action
designed to effectuate the policies of the Act.
Upon the basis of the foregoing findings of fact and
conclusions, and the entire record made in the case, I
hereby make the following:
CONCLUSIONS OF LAW
1.
Respondent is a labor organization within the
meaning of Section 2(5) of the Act.
2.
Chattanooga is an employer engaged in commerce
within the meaning of Section 2(2), (6), and (7) of the Act.
3.
Chattanooga is a "person" within the meaning of
Section 2(1) and Section 8(b)(4) of the Act.
4.
By picketing the premises of Chattanooga, with
which it had no labor dispute, the Respondent has engaged
in, and has induced and encouraged individuals employed
by Chattanooga to engage in, a strike or refusal to perform
services,
and has threatened, coerced, and restrained
Chattanooga with an object in each case of forcing or
requiring Chattanooga to cease doing business with
persons engaged in commerce or in an industry affecting
commerce, and forcing or requiring persons engaged in
commerce or in an industry affecting commerce to cease
doing business with Chattanooga, and has thereby violated
Section 8(b)(4)(i) and (n)(B) of the Act.
5.
The aforesaid unfair labor practices are unfair labor
practices within the meaning of Section 2(6) and (7) of the
Act.
Upon the foregoing findings of fact and conclusions of
law, and the entire record, and pursuant to Section 10(c) of
the National Labor Relations Act, as amended, I hereby
issue the following recommended:
10 In his brief, counsel for the Respondent moved, in effect , to dismiss
the complaint on the grounds that the General Counsel failed adequately to
investigate the charges filed herein before issuing the complaint , and that
Vulcan "deliberately and contumaciously" suppressed documentary eviden-
ce which would allegedly have been favorable to Respondent's cause Judge
Wilson , in the 10(l) proceeding, found no merit in these contentions, and
neither do I I shall therefore deny the motion
i i In the event no exceptions are filed as provided by Sec. 102 46 of the
Rules and Regulations of the National Labor Relations Board , the findings,
Respondent, Local Union No. 391, International Broth-
erhood of Teamsters, CW & H of A, its officers,
representatives, and agents, shall:
1.
Cease and desist from:
(a) Inducing or encouraging any individual employed by
Chattanooga Division, Vulcan Materials Company, or any
other person engaged in commerce or in an industry
affecting commerce , to engage in a strike or a refusal in the
course of his employment to use, manufacture, process,
transport, or otherwise handle or work on goods, articles,
materials, or commodities, or to perform any services,
where an object thereof is to force or require Chattanooga
Division,
Vulcan
Materials Company, to cease doing
business with persons engaged in commerce or in an
industry affecting commerce, or to force or require persons
engaged in commerce or in an industry affecting commerce
to cease doing business with Chattanooga Division, Vulcan
Materials Company.
(b) Threatening, coercing, or restraining Chattanooga
Division, Vulcan Materials Company, or any other person
engaged in commerce or in an industry affecting com-
merce, where an object thereof is to force or require
Chattanooga
Division,
Vulcan Materials Company, to
cease doing business with persons engaged in commerce or
in an industry affecting commerce, or to force or require
persons engaged in commerce or in an industry affecting
commerce to cease doing business with Chattanooga
Division, Vulcan Materials Company.
2.
Take the following affirmative action which I find is
necessary to effectuate the policies of the Act:
(a) Post at its offices and meeting halls copies of the
attached notice
marked "Appendix." 12 Copies of said
notice, on forms provided by the Regional Director for
Region 10, after being duly signed by its authorized
representative, shall be posted by Respondent immediately
upon receipt thereof, and be maintained by it for at least
60 consecutive days thereafter, in conspicuous places,
including
all
places
where notices to members are
customarily posted. Reasonable steps shall be taken by
Respondent to insure that said notices are not altered,
defaced, or covered by any other material.
(b) Furnish said Regional Director with signed copies of
the aforesaid notice for posting by Chattanooga Division,
Vulcan Materials Company, if willing, at places where it
customarily posts notices to its employees.
(c) Notify said Regional Director, in writing, within 20
days from the date of receipt of this Decision, what steps
Respondent has taken to comply herewith.
conclusions, and recommended Order herein shall, as provided in Sec
102 48 of the Rules and Regulations, be adopted by the Board and become
its findings, conclusions , and order, and all objections thereto shall be
deemed waived for all purposes.
12 In the event that the Board's Order is enforced by a Judgment of a
United States Court of Appeals, the words in the notice reading "Posted by
Order of the National Labor Relations Board" shall read "Posted Pursuant
to a Judgment of the United States Court of Appeals Enforcing an Order of
the National Labor Relations Board"